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Posted: 10/3/2011 3:45:11 PM EDT

Medevac - Zhari District, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan

Posted: 10/3/2011 3:45:48 PM EDT

[#1]

PTDS and some of its brothers.

I worked on some of the stuff.

Posted: 10/3/2011 3:46:37 PM EDT

[#2]

All seeing eye.

OPSEC

Posted: 10/3/2011 3:47:42 PM EDT

[#3]

Luftschiff FTW!

Posted: 10/3/2011 3:50:28 PM EDT

[#4]

Aliens.

Posted: 10/3/2011 3:51:43 PM EDT

[#5]

Today's combat action broadcast brought to you by Goodyear....

Posted: 10/3/2011 3:51:49 PM EDT

[#6]

Aerostat. Been around for years.

Blimps move. Those are fixed to their site with a cable. Its a platform for optics.

Posted: 10/3/2011 3:51:54 PM EDT

[#7]

swamp gas

Posted: 10/3/2011 3:52:35 PM EDT

[#8]

Yup they have a pretty cool package

Posted: 10/3/2011 3:54:04 PM EDT

[#9]

Quoted:
Aerostat. Been around for years.

Blimps move. Those are fixed to their site with a cable. Its a platform for optics.

They are pretty badass too......all kinds of cool optics onboard.

2 of them had to be shot down in '04-05 at VBC in Baghdad because they came loose. A Black Hawk clipped one......had to call in Apaches to shoot one down and I think F-15's to shoot the other?

Posted: 10/3/2011 4:30:00 PM EDT

[#10]

These bad boys. Used to scan a large sector for enemy activity.
Blimps

Posted: 10/3/2011 4:34:30 PM EDT

[#11]

Quoted:

Medevac - Zhari District, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan

http://www.michaelyon-online.com/images/stories/080811menatwar/2011-07-31-055444-2-1000.jpg

GOODBOMB????

Posted: 10/3/2011 4:36:45 PM EDT

[#12]

Kirov reporting...

Posted: 10/3/2011 4:36:52 PM EDT

[#13]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Aerostat. Been around for years.

Blimps move. Those are fixed to their site with a cable. Its a platform for optics.

They are pretty badass too......all kinds of cool optics onboard.

2 of them had to be shot down in '04-05 at VBC in Baghdad because they came loose. A Black Hawk clipped one......had to call in Apaches to shoot one down and I think F-15's to shoot the other?

I watched an Osprey come within a few meters of doing that in Sangin. It was a very

moment. I'm sure the pilot had to change his flight suit after that.

Posted: 10/3/2011 4:47:46 PM EDT

[#14]

Pic is from the alternate universe...

Posted: 10/3/2011 4:50:05 PM EDT

[#15]

Quoted:
All seeing eye.

OPSEC

+1

Posted: 10/3/2011 4:50:24 PM EDT

[#16]

(Waves hand) Blimp, there is not, Move along....

Posted: 10/3/2011 4:50:44 PM EDT

[#17]

Swamp gas reflecting off Venus

Posted: 10/3/2011 4:51:28 PM EDT

[#18]

isn't that a helicopter?

Posted: 10/3/2011 4:51:47 PM EDT

[#19]

The Ron Paul blimp got lost this year?

Posted: 10/3/2011 4:52:32 PM EDT

[#20]

You don't see those "blimps"...

We don't see those blimps.

He can go on his way...

you can go on your way...

Move along...move along...

Posted: 10/3/2011 4:54:07 PM EDT

[#21]

Aerial surveillance and electronic observation platform is what I thought. I've seen something about them before.

Looks like my first thought was correct after reading some of the posts.

Posted: 10/3/2011 4:54:39 PM EDT

[#22]

They should paint them like this..........or better yet just use old retired parade balloons.

Posted: 10/3/2011 4:56:06 PM EDT

[#23]

Quoted:
Today's combat action broadcast brought to you by Goodyear....

Posted: 10/3/2011 4:56:51 PM EDT

[#24]

I was expecting to Roseanne Barr in this thread..........BLIMP

Posted: 10/3/2011 5:09:11 PM EDT

[#25]

They use some along the US/Mexico border too. The last couple years I've been able to see one from my office.

Posted: 10/3/2011 5:09:51 PM EDT

[#26]

Quoted:

They should paint them like this..........or better yet just use old retired parade balloons.

http://www.geekalerts.com/u/air-swimmers-shark-rc-blimp.jpg

Better yet

Posted: 10/3/2011 5:11:02 PM EDT

[#27]

NRO 'Bouyant Possum'

Posted: 10/3/2011 5:15:42 PM EDT

[#28]

...if it were painted like, say, a pig...

Posted: 10/3/2011 5:16:05 PM EDT

[#29]

Quoted:

Kirov reporting...

Aegis cruiser moving...

Posted: 10/3/2011 5:18:19 PM EDT

[#30]

Quoted:
They should paint them like this..........or better yet just use old retired parade balloons.

http://www.geekalerts.com/u/air-swimmers-shark-rc-blimp.jpg

Recycle the ones from the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade.

Posted: 10/3/2011 5:18:38 PM EDT

[#31]

I remember when a MAJ(don't recall the name right off hand) on Cp Liberty flew his UH60 right through the cable for one of those things.

He got a very small paycheck for a while.

Posted: 10/3/2011 5:20:22 PM EDT

[#32]

Quoted:
They use some along the US/Mexico border too. The last couple years I've been able to see one from my office.

Nonsense. Our borders are wide open and we don't monitor a damned thing. I read it here, it must be true.

Posted: 10/3/2011 5:21:03 PM EDT

[#33]

Quoted:

Quoted:
They should paint them like this..........or better yet just use old retired parade balloons.

http://www.geekalerts.com/u/air-swimmers-shark-rc-blimp.jpg

Better yet

http://media.venturevancouver.com/100-years-pne-parade-pig-balloon-blog-small.jpg

Posted: 10/3/2011 5:22:21 PM EDT

[#34]

Quoted:

Quoted:
They should paint them like this..........or better yet just use old retired parade balloons.

http://www.geekalerts.com/u/air-swimmers-shark-rc-blimp.jpg

Better yet

http://media.venturevancouver.com/100-years-pne-parade-pig-balloon-blog-small.jpg

I want one.

Posted: 10/3/2011 5:23:42 PM EDT

[#35]

I spent months looking at that damn thing.
At least it didn't stink like the KAF Poo Pond.

Monk

Posted: 10/3/2011 5:24:29 PM EDT

[#36]

That's just Nancy Grace practicing her DWTS routine.

Posted: 10/3/2011 5:25:37 PM EDT

[#37]

Armed?

Posted: 10/3/2011 5:26:14 PM EDT

[#38]

What blimp?

Posted: 10/3/2011 5:27:33 PM EDT

[#39]

In other news, the sky in Afghanistan turns out to be the exact same shade of grey used on the internet message board, AR15.com. Scientists speculate that the sky may actually be a shade off, but to many, "Arfcom Grey" seems to be the color of the day. Dace, back to you in the studio...

Posted: 10/3/2011 5:30:09 PM EDT

[#40]

Posted: 10/3/2011 5:30:14 PM EDT

[#41]

Quoted:
Yup they have a pretty cool package

Package gazer

Posted: 10/3/2011 5:30:36 PM EDT

[#42]

Posted: 10/3/2011 5:31:01 PM EDT

[#43]

I wonder...

are there any currently serving Naval Aviator's with a dirigible pilot's badge?

Posted: 10/3/2011 5:33:42 PM EDT

[#44]

Quoted:
Kirov reporting...

RA2 flashback OMG

Posted: 10/3/2011 5:36:01 PM EDT

[#45]

Quoted:

In other news, the sky in Afghanistan turns out to be the exact same shade of grey used on the internet message board, AR15.com. Scientists speculate that the sky may actually be a shade off, but to many, "Arfcom Grey" seems to be the color of the day. Dace, back to you in the studio...

Very spooky.